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Mr Jósa, you represent the Subjective Values Foundation - apart from your big role in the UNITED Network. I always wondered: Why “Subjective Values”? What stands behind this name?
There is a historical and a philosophical background behind that. The historical one is very simple – it is a university project from the 2000s. In those times, we ran the “Subjective Radio” Station. It was called so – now I am coming to the philosophical part – due to the fact that the radio was an open forum for many-many cultural and philosophical ideas. Both right populists as well as left-wing and communist politicians were coming to us. The original name of the station had been “Publikum”, but after a while we came up with the title “Subjective Radio”. So, we used to work there, met there, and we generally like this idea of being open to different concepts. By definition, ‘subjective’ is about not telling anyone what they have to think, it is about a dialogue and incorporation of different ideas. Besides, values as such are not carved in stone. Of course, while growing up, your family, your background, or your culture give you certain values, but those should be questioned, ie they should not be objective values that are given but one must always think about them and question them. What we have experienced so far, you are not the only one, who does not know, what stands behind the Subjective Values Foundation: So, people tend to remember our name, because it is a catchy one.
I have just taken a look at your website and recognised that you were dealing with so many issues - such as culture, education, human rights, migration, refugees, and so on. What are the most important projects you are working on right now?
It is difficult to make priorities. For us, every project is important. We are members of many networks, so each network is one category in itself. For instance, we implement such projects as “Football against Racism”, a lot of festivals, cultural events, discussions, film screenings. We also have a very strong integrational part: For five years so far, we have been involved in a project connected to social entrepreneurship of migrants. Moreover, we foster cultural diversity and, for instance, celebrated the Chinese New Year together with the Chinese minority in Hungary. We are also a member of the National Campaign Committees in Hungary, and I am myself a European activist. More than that, we implemented several action days connected to the Human Rights Calendar – such as the Refugee Day or the Human Rights Day in summer, ie we are trying to be involved in everything that happens in Hungary. Simultaneously, we would like to be a hub for projects: If there is a good idea, the author may come to the Subjective Values Foundation - and we help to create a project based on this idea. We have a good mix of such projects devoted to migrants or solidarity. We help the authors, provide them with finances legal assistance, and even host them at our premises. When it comes to discrimination, volunteers, European values, “Szubjektiv” is there.
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